heh, quietly scrapped like so many
other titles
--- i_am_skorpion <fireball176176@...> wrote:
> I had the same idea about the card
> games-
> Your cards are shown on your VMU,
> while your onscreen character(s)
> show the action- rejoicing or
> crying- in seven card stud and such,
> have your face cards onscreen and
> your down cards on vmu.
>
> Whatever happened to the parlor
> games we were supposed to get
> around first-quarter 2000?
> --- In DreamcastBrowsers@y..., "insidious_plots"
> <insidious_plots@y...> wrote:
> >
> > btw, speaking of online games, we would KILL for
> an online casino game...
> > i am so ready to clean the floor with some people
> in poker...
> >
> > and a good 4-player double hold em poker... man,
> i might never sleep again...
> >
> > blackjack... spanish 21...
> >
> >
> > and, you know, online or not, they could have made
> great use from the vmu for a great multi-player
> poker game...
> > casino games are always against the house...
> >
> > i want YOUR money...
> >
> > an online casino game would be very easy to pull
> off... it is sort of the essence of all rpg's...
> reduced to it's bare minimum... it would be a
> gambling online multi-player rpg sort of thing...
> you start a character (account) and you can make
> money and level up in each game... they could have
> just built the frickin' online feature into ceasar's
> palace or hoyle casino... i haven't played hoyle,
> but, cp is already set up that way and it would have
> been PERFECT... i have spent more time in a casino
> than i have spent playing games on the dreamcast...
> > i'm ready to go online...
> > once you have played for money, playing for
> virtual money is easy... see, i know i could play
> for money on a pc, but, if i want to play for money,
> i go to a casino... i want a "no consequences
> casino" with players from around the world... just
> for the fun of the games...
> >
> >
> > speaking of the vmu, i am again led to say, man,
> the vmu was under-used... i don't know who owns
> virtua tennis here, but, man, the game is played on
> your vmu screen!! you are kinda' busy playing, but,
> if you look at your vmu while you are playing, there
> is the game you are playing in miniature...
> frickin' cool, but frickin' useless...
> >
> > i know your plays are on the vmu screen on nfl2kx,
> but every other use of it i know of is useless or
> just added info... like seaman and sonic...
> > i love the idea of using your own private screen
> for private info... it just makes sense... fur
> fighters fluff match (think cartoon version of
> quake), you have your ammo and score or something,
> but you can also have that info on the tv screen
> where it is much easier to see...
> >
> > man, the things they can do with the gamecube
> using gba's as controllers... imagine the
> intricacies a game that FULLY used the screen and
> the individual gba's could have... it could be
> amazing... but, i will not be surprised with they
> make minimal to no use of it like game developers
> did with the vmu...
> >
> >
> >
> > anyway...
>
>


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